Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says ...

Getting rhythm, to paraphrase the late Johnny Cash, is not something we learn, but is "part of our biological toolkit. " That ...

Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

Researchers looked at a connection between how infants process musical rhythm and language. We break it down.

In A Nutshell Newborns can predict musical beats within the first two days of life, but show no brain response to melodic patterns 49 sleeping babies listened to Bach piano pieces while scientists ...